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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-07-27
Skilled Farm Laborers.

No idea has done more to repress farm
ing progress than the idea that a farm
laborer need not be skilled-that brute
strength is the main requisite. This never
was true, and is less so now than ever be-
fore since improved machinery has to be
handled. But even in handling such old
fashioned implements as the ak and the
hoe efficiency depends as much upon skill
as upon muscle. IT is by no means the
IaTg est or strongest hired man who viii do
the most work in day. And when help
is hired that iss entirely unused to our
methods of farming its inexperience
greatly detracts from its value. The truth
is that farming is trade that has to be
learned il the workers at il would be e.
fective. 1t requires knowledge and skill in
q larger number of things than most other
kinds of business. In fact, it is never fully
learned. The oldest and most successful
farmer is generally the most ready to learn
something new about his business, and it
is usually this habit which he has kept up
through his life that has given him his
success. That farmer shows only his linn
tied idea of his business who thinks that
he knows so much about it that he can not
learn any thing more. And, though skill
In farm help is desirable, it is sometimes
better in rough work to have a green hand
willing to do as he is told, and to learn,
than one self-conceited with the idea that
he knows every thing already. Much de-
ponds upon employers. Some are them
selves so coDceited that few hired men are
willing to try to learn from them.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-07-27
undergraduates of Farm Laborers.

The owners of farms and those who are
compelled to employ labor by the month
or the day have in many cases occasion to
feel that their lot is cast in unpleasant
places. In many of the more rural towns
it is coming to be difficult matter te get
satisfactorily help at any price. Even il
so independent and insolent that the en-
ployer is frequently brought to feel that
be is poorly master of the situation. 1t is
coming to be so that those who are more
especially day laborers upon farms are a
class of poor, miserable beings, whose only
care is to get q living, aud what poor
whisky they want. When engaged at work
they are ready for no cause whatever to
drop their tools and leave the field. We
have a due regard for the protection of the
rights Of deserving poor people, and espe-
cially the poor laooring man, but it does
seem as though the present legislation for
the lsbsr class is throwing too strong a
shield around class whose only care is TO
secure a livelihood by any means, no mat
ter how dishoDorsbly. Farmers, mer-
chants and all who have any dealings with
them are compelled to suffer for their SIM
pie act of indulgence.
There are able.bodied men who might
earn good living who, il they eau, will
get trusted for groceries with the intent to
Gefraud, II possible, and when such a one
works for farmer he calculates to get more
in wages ar provisions than he expects to
psy for. The time will come when the
prosperity OF this country will require that
n ere be legislation for the protection of
the producers.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-07-27
Gardan HintE.

For roofing the best cutting OF plant is
q shoot of new growth Just before it grows
woody at all or fbrous, but will sap oil
clean without strings. This should have
three buds if possible, though one leaf and
leaf-bud will start with good care. Roots
start from the bud at the base OF OF the leaf
sooner than at any other part. Take of
the leaves for an inch or two and stick the
tipgs should be kept entirely fresh until
planted by setting them In water or by
wrapping them lightly in moist cloth.
The loss OF their sap by evaporation before
or after setting is their death.
Cuttings folded in wet moss, with waxed
or oiled paper around them, will go week
or more in condition If done up as soon as
cut 1t is well to water and sprinkle the
whole plant thoroughly the evening before
taking of slips and cut in the dew. At
least water and shade an hour before cut
| ting, that the plant NAV be in the fullest
vigor. Keep the pan = water, wet sand OF
moist cloth at hand 70 receive the cuttings
| as made.
Boxes three inches deep, half filed with
| sand and q light mixture of hbry soil OF
earth mold, faced off with an inch of pure
sand, make good cutting boxes when 9
number are to be struck. For a few cut
tings the best thing is six-inch flower
TWO inches OF crooks laid In, and @ poronl
| pot half the size or less set within the
larger one and kept full of water. Between
the rims OF the two pots, which sh0uld b'
on level, the space Is filed with sand, Ii
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-07-27
when to Pick Fruit.
IAmerioan Arricnltnrist.I


When fruits are mature, they make prep
aration for falling, just as mature leaves
do. A distinct lire is formed upon the
8 EN- OF the fruit, in preparation for the
separation. When the apple or pear is
mature, it will separate from the tree with
out any pulling; mere lifting the fruit from
its hanging position 70 a horizontal one,
will cauee the separation from the tree to
take place at once. a little observation
will teach when the fruit is ready to be
gathered. at this time, the fruit having
made its growth, derives nothing more
from the tree. After the fruit is tull grown,
its next step is towards decay. Decay in
early kinds comes in few days or weeks.
In the late sorts 1t requires several months,
but whether early or late, there is a stage
in its this progress from maturity to decay,
when the fruit best suits our purpose, and
we say, that is ''ripe," or mellow" or sin
eating" This time in early kinds comes
very quickly, and other varieties do not
assume it before spring. Early kinds
come into eating condition" so soon, that
they Will pear but little transportation,
hence are suited olny to near markets.
But these vary greatly, and there are from
very early and autumn ripening kinds, to
the very latest. The fruit-groWer should
be careful observer of these points. The
hest fruit may be spoiled or materially de-
pIeciated in value by careless picking and
handling. Properly constructed cold
storage houses VIII do much towards keep
ing fruit il good condition, but unless the
fruit is picked at the right time, it cannot
be kept proftably even in the best fruit
house,
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-07-27

the top. 1t is easier and cheaper 70 rake
the silsee at time of feeding from the top
than to cut down. The favorite size is
about fifteen feet in each OF the three d.
mensions. 1t is better, he thinks to have
two or three small silos than one large one.
The corn for the silo should be cut, ears
and all, into inch lengths. and not put too
rapidly into silo. 1t is best to fill one day
then rest a day, and so on. When
filing, the cut corn should be trodden
about the edge and corners and when fuu
the building paper should be laid over the
top and extend so as 10 pass up little at
the walls or sides; then all covered by
boards and weighed by grain or hay. 1t
is believed that the very sweetest aud
best silage is thus secured in the easiest
and cheapest manner, with the minimum
rush and labor.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-07-27
Care of Young Turkeys.

The young turkey is very tender in its
first stages, but is very hardy when ma
tnred. Young turkeys cannot be fed like
chicks, as they are as dainty in the choice
OF their food as young wild birds, and a
mistake of a siHgle day may destroy them
all. In feeding them it must be kept in
view that they make very rapid growth OF
feathers, and food well adapted for the
production of feathers should always be
fed. They should have food every day, but
at times they will refuse it, They seem 10
have preference for food of a white color
sDd are very fond of milk and curds.
Stale bread soaked in milk, and also
plenty of curds, is the best food for them
at first. Some advise feeding hard boiled
eggs, but such food usually results in var
rous bowel diseases. Onions chopped very
fine with tops included are highly rel
ished, but little troughs of wheat and
chopped meat should be placed before
them every day, IN order to induce them
to begin on such food as soon as posi-
bic.
Dampness is fatal to young turkeys.
They should never be allowed to go in the
damp grass or get wet. The main cause OF
loss is lice, which come from the hens, and
right here we will say that nearly all
kinds Of adult fowls have lice, even when
seemingly free from the pests. Not only
the little red mites attack young turkeys,
but the large gray body lice soon begin on
them. AS young turkeys die very sud
denly when attacked by lice, it is best OF
to wait until they begin to droop before
using precautions, for then it will be too
late in a majority Of cases, but search
them every morning. Should a single
louise be seen, grease the heads, necks and
vents with lard (usipg the smallest posi-
bic quantity, and dust the bodies well
with Persian insect powder. Do the same
with the hen.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-07-27

And the reporters stood watching them out
of the town;
For fishers viii lie and reporters believe,
For twas ever their won't though they seldom
deceive
For we've all been fishing ourselves.
Three editors sat in their Offices high.
And they made up their sheets as the moou
went down:
And each murmured, "Pll glance at the usual
lie,"
And they picket up the copy" with dark
some frown;
"For pspers must print the fishers tale
Though il calmly tells of hooking O whale
For we've all been fishing curselyesl''
Three Journalists lay on the Office floor
In the gsslight CLEAN when the foreman came
round,
For each had resd the tale from the shore
And each had sunk down in deadly swound:
For the tshers had said and the scribes had
written
That all that eve not fsh had bit en-
And truth was stranger thsn fcuonl
Dakota Rail-
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-07-27
More Profitable Than Liquors.

1t is said the dealers in Chicago admit
that more Moxie is drunk there than
liquors. The first.class saloons don't care,
IS they make more money on it. If the
Moxie is what is claimed for tia support
for the over-worked and nerve weary, as
we'll as being a fine beverage-God be
praised. 1t msy fave hundreds of thou.
sands of druDkards. The doctors and
chemists say it is harmless and very salts
factory in its results, which are the same
as very good food. At least 1t will make
people o worse. If it will cure one drunk
ard 1t is worth the effort for 1t.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-07-27
Popularity of Ensilage.

Last season Prof. Cook of the Michigan
agricultural college, visited Ohio, New
York, and Wisconsin, and attended far
mers' meetings, and did his best to ac-
quaint himself with the best practice and
experience as to the silo. He was sur9ris-
ed at the unanimity Of opinion amohn
those who had used silage, Every man
las enthusiastic in its praise. No one was
learipghis silo down, but many were build
il g more. According to the best informa-
tion he leaned during his visit, he con-
Guides that a silo can be made very cheaply
tight In the ban. We have only to make a
Cargo double-walled box, using tarred build.
Iog paper, that it may be practically air
light. Two by ten joists are used, 50 that
the walls are ten inches apart. The bottom
is grouted, and il is thoroughly drained
II necessary, against water. The door IL
double, and made in horizontal sections,
80 that it can be opened gradually from
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-07-27
Farm Notea.


Your horses like q shady place while
Ieetipg in the field as well as You do.
The pleasure of raising good horses is not
one of the least considerations in the busi-
ness.
A company of titled Frenchmen are
raising Arabian horses on Lame Johnny
Creek, in Dakota.
A bill to prohibit the coloring of oleo-
margarine yellow, in imitation OF butter,
was defeated in the Massachusetts Lsgis-
lature.
Thousands of acres of land in Oneida
and Herkimer counties, New York, were
sold at auction at L cent an acre the other
day.
Waiermellops two feet five inches long
and twenty-eight inches in circu mference
convince negroes in Kissimme, Fla, that
they are living in paradise.
The question of fireplace ornamental
tion is tettled in some country honses by
filing the open fire place with shelves to
hold bric.s-brsc.
Examine floor thinkers over barn cellars
before storing the hay crop. In many
places their strength will be tried more
than for many years.
Five hundred and s1xty-ive acres of corn
have been engaged of the Audroscoggin
County, Maine, farmers, by the two
Aburn corn fac ories..
Professor Stewart reports the feeding of
I04 COWS on an acre of corn in the milk,
snd it gave them full feed for four days,
equal TO 4l6 days for one cow.
Lands that are overstocked not only yield
less food, but the animals pastured upon
them make less yield in beef or milk
than when the stock is in proportion to
the capacity of the lands for producing
food.
At present the great bulk of California
fruit finds market in the East and in
Europe. Europeans do not amount to
n uch ss fruit Gamers, and Paris is glad to
get canned apricots sweeter than the
green fruit, and canned peaches nearly as
good as fruit picked off the tree, for less
me ney than it costs at the French capital for
homegrown fruit in the season. The En-
glIsh offer no competition, and are getting
to love our canned fruit so well that five
times as much as last year he's been order
ed shipped.
Road building and road repairing are q
science, and an important science, too;
and it is ridiculous that work Of such prac-
ticle importance should be so largely IN
trusted to men who, however skilled and
successful they may be in their own de-
paItment Of Industry, know little of the
principles of surveying or scientific road
making, ard whose only idea of repairing
a roadway is to pile lot of dirt in the
middle of the halfway until it becomes q
ridge of SOIL along the narrow surface Of
which teams have to pick their way.
However busy farmers and Suburban
r s'6ents may be nowadays, they can har l.
ly afford TO neglect the garden. 1t pays to
raise plenty of good vegetables and small
fruits and people who regard the health
and comfort OF their families should not
fail to cultivate choice varieties for home
consumption. Those who use inferior gar
den products, or only such as they
can neither sell nor give away, practice
falfe economy. "The husbandman that
laboreth must be psrtaker of the fruits, "
saith Paul, and the admonition ought 10
tesheeded by the great number of other
wise apparantly sensible folks.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-07-27
a Pm.

Oh, know a certain woman who is reckoned
with the good,
But she fills me with more terror than a raging
lion would.
The little cnills run up and down my spire
whene'er we meet
Though she seems a gentle creature and she's
very trim and neat.
And she has thousand vIitues and not one ac-
knowledged sin,
But she is the Sort of person you could Iken to
pin.
And she pricks you, and she sticks you, in a
way that can't be said
Wien you seek for what has hurt you, why, you
can not find the head.
But she fills you with discomfort and exasper.
ating pain
If any BODY asks you why, you really can't ex-
plain.
A pin is such tiny thing of that there is no
doubt
Yet, when it's sticking in your flesh, you re
wreIched ILL it's outl
She is wonderfully observing-when she meets
pretty girl
She is always Sure to tell her mher "bapg" is
And she is sosympathetic: to her friend, who's
much admired
She is often heard remarking, Dear. you look
soworn and tiIed!"
And she is careful critic, for on yesterday she
eyed
The new dress was airing with a woman's
natural pride,
softly added at
Is really misfortune that the basque is such
fit.n
Then she said, eli you had heard me yestereve;
I'm sure, my friend.
You would say am a champion who knows
how to Defend
And she left me with the feeling-most I'M
pleasant, 1 aver
That the whole world would despise me If it had
not been for her,
Whenever 1 encounter her, in such a nameless
way
She gives me the impression am at my worst
that day,
And the hat that was imported (and that cost
me half sOnneD
With Just one glance from her round eyes be-
comes Bowery bonnet.
She is slways bright and smiling, sharp and
shining for thrust
Use does not seem to blunt her point, nor does
she gather rust.
Oh! / wish some hapless specimen of mankind
would begin
To tidy up the world for me, by picking up this
pin.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-07-27

which the cuttings are set against the outer
rim end well wet The draining from the
inside pot of water keeps the cuttings
always moist. and they hasten to root.
Sand is best, being easy for the tender root
threads to enter and free from decayiug
particles. When the first roots are made
known by the freshening of the terminal
bud or shoot of the cutting Immediately
pot or change to richer soil that has food
for the plant or it will lose strength.
Prompt planting must be given.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-07-27
"sunset on the Farm -

glory rests on the earth tonight.
And the sky is lied with radiant light;
Clouds of crimson with riffs OF gold
Gracefully draped like curtain fold,
over ny head the swallows fly,
Shin ming away through the tinted sky:
Out from the woodland cool ond deep,
Into the pasture, long shadows creep;
Down the hillside the brown COWS come
Quietly vending their way toward home;
Crossing the meadow of new-mown hay,
The farm boy whistles upon his way,
Without care resting on his mind
happier lad one could not ind
DER The dus y road the tired men come,
Their long and faithful days work done;
star in the sky begins TO peep
Where the light and darkness seem to meet;
Night descendS on the weather-stsined housI
and barn,
And quiet tails on the dear old farm.
by Orokie.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-07-27

complete. By building two of these
houses facing each other, eight to ten feet
apstt, and roofing and inclosiug the space
between them, a large and convenient
feed room can be made at very small ex-
pense,
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-07-27
Woman.

Most fiattered and least trusted of the race,
DTopt for whim and followed for face,
Loved for their follies, their devotion scorned
In presence sighted and in absence mourned.
Their hearts, their characters by men abused;
Who never think their help should De refused
Seated by kings and trampled in the mire,
The best and worst they equally inspire.
Cursed for their weakness, hated when they re
strong;
Whatever happens, always in the wrong.
Tact is their genius. Add yet one thing more
Woman is lost when woman proves bore.
Temple Bar.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-07-27
Tha snmmer Fishera.

Three fishers went sailing out into the lake,
Ont into the lake as the sun went down;
Each thought on the biggest lie be could make
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-07-27
Po ETRY OF THE PERIOD.
Ninety-Eisht In the Shade.

Ninety-ElRht In the Snaoe.
Oh, where is that last winters girl
Whom besoughJt0 dance,
Who gave to me the shoulder cold
And froze me with glance?
Whose very chilling manner then
Brought anguish 70 my brow
I'd like particularly we'll
To meet that maiden now.
Down beats the red, remorseless sun,
Down droop the collars high;
The drivers loudly fight and tune,
The horses fall and die;
The hot pedestrian fain would know,
AS he in anguish groans,
The art of taking off his flesh
nd sitting IN his bonesl"
All palsied IS the city's trade,
The heat makes traffic quail;
Ice cream and boats the only things
That seem to have a salel
Where is that frigid wave-oh, where
Which innocents expect2
And where the famous "ice-cold air"
That theatres affect2
We pant and fret. perspire and glow.
Beneath the city's heat,
But one man 5 POISON, as we know.
May ba anOther's meat.
Harkl what triumphant screams OF joy
From every seaside host,
From Brighton Beach 10 far Cape May,
Ring out along the coast
u Edward E. Kidder, in New YORK World
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-07-27
BeuIah Land,


Obersde ribber In Beulah lam
De lubly angels
In white robes stan;
Dey beckon me dar.
kin hyar de ban,
Ober de ribber in Beulab Lam.
Ober de ribber what sights / seei
Somebody s.an's dar
Awaitin' for me:
STAINS on de shO'
Oh de Jaspah Sea,
A calm; he say dar's res in me.
ODER de ribber soon mus go,
Weary ob waitin'
Fro all dis WOO;
An when my journey
Is ended know
Dat de cpd Shepherd will open de do.
ODER de ribper my soul takes wing,
De songs of Zion
hyar EN- sing;
When tuned to de harps
How our voices will ring
Close roun' de frone OBJ de hebenly king.
Ober de ribber dey beckon'd to me,
De ribber dat flows to de Jaspah Sea;
ODER de ribber 20 all mus know,
Den Wen shout glory and praise him an sing
Long 10 de golden streets how II Will rlngi
Close to de Massa fo'evah Wen stan,
ODER de rIbber In Ben1ah Lam.
-[Bow HAcKLEY, st. Joe, Mich.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-07-27
The beg and His Houss-Wksl to Pick Fruit
-PrsSsrviBg Eggs.
August Trimming Of Hsdgss-Care Of Young
Turksys-SIwing Grass Sssd.
Tie Kitchen Gsrdsn in August-Ws,ning
Calvss-Pcpllarty Easilage.
When to neutrality-suspicious. Farm
Laberers-Garden Hints-Farm& d
Household Hints, Notes, Etc.
The Hoe and al. House.

Correspondence County GentIeman.l
A good bog-house or houses-if msny
hogs are reared on the farm can net well
be dispensed with on any farm. 1 have
built six for my own use since first began
farming, and think that in the latter-built
ones / have combined convenience and
economy, and will tell you what kind of a
hog-house / like and would build.
The first hog-houses l built were made
u feet wide, but have now had four that
were feet wide, and l find this width
ample to accommodate as many hogs as
can eat at the trough, and so I recommend
a house OF this width. 1t is sometimes
desirable to move house short distance,
and so 1 usually make them Sz16 feet, and
find that three men can roll one of them
from 80 10 100 feet in few hours il it is
thought best to change the location. A
house Sx16 feet will accommodate from
twelve to fifteen store hogs through the
winter, and is large enough to fatten ten
large hogs il. The bill of lumber for a
house of this size, built as l direct, is as
follows:
The daily herald. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1886-1887, 1887-04-15
Police Court.

Yesterday Kanoloke and Keolo
paid SO each for drunkenness.
Joaquin de Mello Coelko, after two
remands from the 9th and nth, for
assault and battery, was fined $50 and
$40 costs. Appeal noted.
+. +. Miranda, on the charge Of as.
sault and battery on his wife Julia,
pleaded guilty to slapping her and was
mulct in fine and costs, S..
All Nee, vagrancy, being unable tc
give a satisfactory account OF himself
was put down for one month at bard
labor and 40 costs.
Walk got off with reprimand fol
assault and battery.
Hailama got left in the sum of S.
fine and costs, for the same ohense.
Moeipo was laid under three months
hard labor and fine and costs, $1,000
also for assault and battery. He il
the man reported in Mondays HERALr
as having made an attempt to kill hi
wife.
Otto Bahlmann was fined $Ioo anC
ST. costs for selling spirituous liquor
without license. He kept the "Val
ley Home" and was arrested last Sun
day.